I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

I think it's important to vote.

I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away.

“The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.” 

“The essence of bigotry is denying others the same rights you claim for yourself. Green bigots are a classic example.” 

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.” 

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

A right delayed is a right denied.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.