Quotes about Montgomery

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness."

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'

At this point I began to think about Thoreau's "Essay on Civil Disobedience." I became convinced that what we were preparing to do in Montgomery was related to what Thoreau had expressed. We were simply saying to the white community, "We can no longer lend our cooperation to an evil system." From this moment on I conceived of our movement as an act of massive noncooperation. From then on I rarely used the word "boycott.

and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

But here and now I record this vow, most solemnly, in my diary, My pen shall heal, not hurt.