Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

If you want to be in with a gang then you have to go along with hiding people's things.

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

Spiritual truth should never be sold - those who sell it injure themselves spiritually.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

I am definitely not the best wife, and no one has nominated me for 'Mother of the Year.'

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

We live on the most incredible planet, and yet we abuse it, and we abuse it mercilessly.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one.

Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.

The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

Part of being a former abortion clinic worker is learning how to deal with your past sin.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.

Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

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