We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany.