If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.