I Am Not One Of Those Who

I Run Because I Am Convinced That This Country Is On A Perilous Course And I Have Such Strong Feelings About What Must Be Done.

If Any Man Claims The Negro Should Be Content... Let Him Say He Would Willingly Change The Color Of His Skin And Go To Live In The Negro Section Of A Large City. Then And Only Then Has He A Right To Such A Claim.

Prejudice Exists And Probably Will Continue To `but We Have Tried To Make Progress And We Are Making Progress. We Are Not Going To Accept The Status Quo.'

You Knew That What Is Given Or Granted Can Be Taken Away, That What Is Begged Can Be Refused; But That What Is Earned Is Kept.

About One Month Before He Was Killed, When Asked By David Frost How His Obituary Should Read: Something About The Fact That I Made Some Contribution To Either My Country, Or Those Who Were Less Well Off. I Think Back To What Camus Wrote About The Fact That Perhaps This World Is A World In Which Children Suffer, But We Can Lessen The Number Of Suffering Children, And If You Do Not Do This, Then Who Will Do This? I'd Like To Feel That I'd Done Something To Lessen That Suffering.