Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

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

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.