Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

In Christ there is no East nor West.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer