We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy