I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

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

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.