From this point on, the race's advancement will come from the efforts of its individuals."

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

"The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance."

"Freedom always carries the burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves."

". . . It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it."