There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.