7 Quotes by Clayborne Carson

Working in a social struggle is not necessarily rewarding. There are no retirement plans.

I don't think people give her enough credit for doing something very few people have done. If she hadn't been as dedicated and energetic as she was, the King Center wouldn't exist and the King holiday wouldn't exist.

It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.

The Institute makes sure that the work we're doing to preserve the King legacy - all of the materials related to King and the civil rights movement - goes on in perpetuity.

The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the “whoso-ever will, let him come” doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion that professes concern for the souls of men and is not equally concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It well has been said: “A religion that ends with the individual, ends.