Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.