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.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.