When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.