There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

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

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.