Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.