"I think the inconveniences of a segregated..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”

“We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late.”

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.”

“Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.”

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.”

“Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.”

“I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.”

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.”

“I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.”