There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

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.