I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.