Activist Quotes

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

I don't believe in welfare.

I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent.

I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.