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

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.