Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?