I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.