The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

We must substitute courage for caution.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.