Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

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

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.