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.

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

The proof that one truly believes is in action.

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

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .