I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

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

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