I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.