Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

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.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.