"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."

"Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."

"You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."

"Freedom and independence form my character."

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

"When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death."

"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime."