1. “A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.”
2. “Sometime history takes things into its own hands.”
3. “The measure of a country’s greatness is it ability to retain compassion in times of crises.”
4. “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
5. “Do what is right and let the law catch up.”
6. “Our whole constitutional heritage rebel at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.”
7. “Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.”
8. “Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.”
9. “History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”
10. “Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.”
11. “Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”
12. “We must dissent from the fear.”
13. “Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”
14. “None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.”
15. “Truth is more than a mental disease.”
