Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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