All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea