Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.