Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.