Quotes from James L. Farmer, Jr.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.