If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

I just want to do God’s will.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.