Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

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

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.