We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

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.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.