The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.