The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.