One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind