In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."