All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.