"It is not often that I have been afraid, but when I have been, I have been thoroughly afraid."

"The battle for the civil rights of black people has to be fought by black people themselves."

"We must remember that we are a country of immigrants. We are all here because someone else came before us."

"I have sometimes thought that it was a good thing that I was not a man, for I should have been a very restless man."

"There is a certain exhilaration in working with people who are doing things, whether they are right or wrong."