The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.