I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.