My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.