You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.