We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.