If you can't resolve your problems in peace, you can't solve war.

I think that the one thing that we've learned in our union is that you don't wait. You just get out and you start doing things.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.