"I was a man of peace, but I was also a man who believed in justice."

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

"I'm not going to sit here and say that I love everybody. But I will say that I respect everybody."

"Every day is a new day."

"The way I figured it, I was a black man in a white man's world. I had to make my own way."