Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of read more

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and read more

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued read more

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, read more

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have read more

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality read more

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,