We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

I just want to do God’s will.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.