I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.