I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.