Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.