Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.

The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.