We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.