Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

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