Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

We forgive but not forgotten

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.