Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.