Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.

Find a voice in a whisper.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.