When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.