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

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.