Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

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

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.