If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.