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

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.