Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.