1. “Give light, and people will find the way…”
2. “I’ve never credited myself with a professional life. But, basically, it has been that.”
3. “In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.”
4. “One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.”
5. “I didn’t break the rules, but I challenged the rules.”
6. “We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.”
7. “I came out of a family background that itself with people.”
8. “Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s son, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.”
9. “My theory is, Strong people don’t need strong leaders.”
10. “I have always thought that what is needed is he development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.”
