I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.