We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

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.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.