Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.