In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.