As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.