As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.