No one is free until we are all free.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.