Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

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.

We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.