When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes.
People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
A dead afternoon in a dark bar was not the worst of fates.
The happy man. . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!