Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.