Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.