I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

I've decided to stick with love.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.