The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.