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 his…

- Ralph Abernathy

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

- Ralph Abernathy

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.

- Ralph Abernathy

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

- Ralph Abernathy

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

- Ralph Abernathy

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

- Ralph Abernathy

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…

- Ralph Abernathy

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.

- Ralph Abernathy

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

- Ralph Abernathy