As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.