The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.