Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

We have been so patient and loyal ... and what has it gotten us? We want our full share now.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.