We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.