In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

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

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.