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

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

Be the best of whatever you are.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.