Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

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.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.