A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

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...'

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.