The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.