I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

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

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.