An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.