Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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.