Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.