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.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

Friends are forever Boys are whatever.