The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

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

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

You have to keep moving forward

But by all means, keep moving.