I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.