"At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization."
American labor union leader and civil-rights activist. He founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and helped drive the 1963 March on Washington. He died in 1979.