Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.
Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will, it will not. So the trick is to know that life is on our side -- and but awaits our command.
If you can do it then why do it?