When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.