A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.