I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.