Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].