All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today. Dr.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it righ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right. Dr.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.