In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.