Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: It is the only way we can leave the future open.

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.