Quotes on Birmingham

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.