A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.