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.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.