The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.