If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.