“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”

“I wasnt anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”

“Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.”

“We cant answer Kings assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.”

“I wasn’t anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.”

“The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving...”

“Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.”

“The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.”

“After you are gone, people may forget most of what you have said and done. But they will remember that you loved them.”

“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.”

“My life is an open book; at least this photo album".~R. Alan Woods [2013]”