Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".