When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.