The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

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.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.