Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.