We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.