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.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

I have a dream today!

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.