The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.