My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

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

I’ve been to the Mountaintop

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.