We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I cannot make myself believe that God wanted me to hate. I'm tired of violence, I've seen too much of it. I've seen such hate on the faces of too many sheriffs in the South. And I'm not going to let my oppressor dictate to me what method I must use. Our oppressors have used violence. Our oppressors have used hatred. Our oppressors have used rifles and guns. I'm not going to stoop down to their level. I want to rise to a higher level. We have a power that can't be found in Molotov cocktails.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.