There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.