We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

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

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.