Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

We must use time creatively.

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.