I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

You can't work on everything all the time, so start where you are.

I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

I have to resist the temptation to want to learn everything. You know, you can't. You have to restrict yourself at some time, or else you find yourself just being spread too thin. And already I think I try too many things.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.