Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the Gospel. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. You know, actually all that I do in civil rights I do because I consider it a part of my ministry.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The secret of success is focus of purpose.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Everything in life got its purpose, find its reason in every season.