I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'