You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.