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

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.