To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.