The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.