A time comes when silence is betrayal.

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

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

[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.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity