We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.