Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.