But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.