Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

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

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.