Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.