I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity."

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

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