"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be."

"The price one pays for refusing to play the game is that one is not heard."

"All of us know, whether we say it or not, that life is a battle."