Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.