You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.