Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

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.