What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.