As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.