In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think