I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

A right delayed is a right denied.

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy