"Most people at some time in their lives have felt discomfort as a result of not belonging to a place or fitting in with a particular crowd. You would be a rare person, indeed, if you had never experienced being an outsider, if you had never been misunderstood or rejected because of who you were, how you looked, or what you said. I think that immigrants experience a similar feeling of dislocation and uncertainty as a result of not belonging to the mainstream of American society. They look, sound, or act different from the dominant culture, and they have to survive in an unfamiliar place among unfamiliar people. For this reason, I think the immigrant experience is one that everyone can relate to."
An Unfamiliar Place
An Inescapable Network of Mutuality
"...I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."