Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.