There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

What are you doing for others?

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.