A right delayed is a right denied.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

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