I am not afraid of the word tension.

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

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.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.