Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.