Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.