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

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.