Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

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

History will treat me right.

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.

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?

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.