A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. |
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. |
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. |
I have waited twenty-two years for this . . . I've waited all my life for this opportunity. |
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. |
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. |
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action. |
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. |
Today, Rustin is overshadowed by memories of Dr. King and his [I Have a Dream] speech. |
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions . . . Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. |