It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.