Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.