When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.
Copy QuoteOne of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Copy Quote View & ShareInflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
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