Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.