If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

No one is free until we are all free.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.