There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.