Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go

Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so truly free in my life.