The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

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.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.