From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn’t threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

No one has earned the right to do less than their best.