True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.