Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.