My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.