Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. 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.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.