You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.