There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.