A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.