My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.