We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.