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

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.