The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.