We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have…

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American peop…

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from …

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of p…

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson