“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

“Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.”

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

“So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the other thousands of rooms like this one today and tomorrow and next week will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.”

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”