"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.