When we rise in the morning... at the table we drink coffee which is provided to us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African; before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden to more than half the world.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.