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

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.