There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

Unity has never meant uniformity.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.