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

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world