A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.