“Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”

I say from time to time that the vote is precious.

Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.

You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.

Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.

You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible.

I’ve lost my faith in science.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

The wars of Israel were the only ‘holy wars’ in history, there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.