To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.