"People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."

"So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history."

"We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community."

"If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race."

"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."

"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."

"I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."

"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known."