The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people....

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Burroughs was a very political writer.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

You’ll be free or die!

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Bush’s choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer...

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

The Young Women’s Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it’s been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact,...

They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people’s revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

I never lost a passenger.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the ’60s.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to You and You’ve got to see me through.

By the end, everybody had a label – pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary… If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

That’s right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I’m glad they did.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn’t observe the police without guns, we took our guns with...

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.