What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.