I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.

What does a black man look like begging for a cup of coffee in a white restaurant, and doesn't have a job to back up his - to pay for it when, when - when he does get the coffee? It's putting the cart before the horse.

I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.