Violence is the weapon of the weak.

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

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

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 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?

It's not the name they call you, it's the name you answer to.