There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.