The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.