Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

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

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.