Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.