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

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.