Is your heart right? If your heart isn't right, fix it up today.

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.