Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.