We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

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

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

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