"You know, my friends, there comes a..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”

“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.”

“To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.”

“India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.”

“The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.”

“I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.”

“A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.”

“An awakened people who rely upon their nonviolent strength are independent in the face of any conceivable combination of the armed powers.”

“The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.”