When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.