For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Be true to what you said on paper.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.