A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.