We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

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

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.