I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

History will treat me right.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.