There is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that dies not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not share that power with black aspirations for freedom and human dignity.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The great challenge now is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

God is not interested merely in freeing black men and brown men and yellow men, but God is interested in freeing the whole human race.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.