If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.