History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.