I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.