I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.