"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

"The greatest strength of the civil rights movement was its ability to make white people uncomfortable."

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a …"