O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.