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.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.