The task was simple: to stop legally condoned murder and legally condoned discrimination and legally condoned deprivation of the right of a human being in a free society under the United States Constitution to have an equal right to a quality life.
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Remarks at the Annual Hubert H. Humphrey Award Dinner
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We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.
I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.
There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.
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