In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.