Ralph Abernathy

“I've been in jail forty-three times and I'm not tired yet.”

“This is a nonviolent movement. We're committed to this method and we will not be provoked into violence.”

“We are determined to walk in dignity and self-respect.”

“The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”

“We have a moral obligation to be intelligent.”

“It's not what you call me, but what I answer to that matters.”

“The poor people's campaign is a movement for all poor people, black, white, brown, red, and yellow.”

“We are not asking for any special privileges. We are only asking for our rights as American citizens.”

“We were living in a period when we had to change the world. We had to make the world better for our children. And we had to do it nonviolently.”

“I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”