My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

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

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.