When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.