We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.