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.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.