James L. Farmer, Jr. Quotations

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

Over the years, there has been an intermingling of film and aircraft. This relationship has generated all kinds of movies, including those filmed in San Diego.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.