I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.