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

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

I have a dream today!

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.