We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.