We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.