People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The proof that one truly believes is in action.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.