In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.