It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The time is always right to do what is right.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

We must use time creatively.