Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.