Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.