The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

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.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.