It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.