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

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.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his opponent, but he refuses to hate him. And he stands with understanding, goodwill at all times.

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.