We Must Preserve Our Right To Think

Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.

... Many Of The Things Which We Deplore, The Prevalence Of Tuberculosis, The Mounting Record Of Crime In Certain Sections Of The Country, Are Not Due Just To Lack Of Education And To Physical Differences, But Are Due In Great Part To The Basic Fact Of Segregation Which We Have Set Up In This Country And Which Warps And Twists The Lives Not Only Of Our Negro Population, But Sometimes Of Foreign Born Or Even Of Religious Groups.

I Am Who I Am Today Because Of The Choices I Made Yesterday.

It Seems To Me That I Cannot Afford, As A Self-respecting Individual, To Refuse To Do A Thing Merely Because It Will Make Me Disliked Or Bring Down A Storm Of Criticism On My Head.

There Is A Widespread Understanding Among The People Of This Nation, And Probably Among The People Of The World, That There Is No Safety Except Through The Prevention Of War.