“You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.”

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.

I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.

Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.

There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.

Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.

Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.