Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.