If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

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.

We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.