Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.