"We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham … Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States."
"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: 1) collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; 2) negotiation; 3) self-purification; and 4) direct action. We have gone through all of these steps in Birmingham … "
"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure."