Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.