Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.