Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

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