And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.