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

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.