Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the….

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone..

Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old..

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that..

Fear and God do not occupy the same space..

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people..

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble..

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I sa….

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man..

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with….

I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When ….

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me..

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a grea….

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious..

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay..

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is risin….

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge..

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky..

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which a….

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power..