We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

Why is the church always a taillight rather than a headlight?

Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I'm not the man I once was