It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.