Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

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

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.