We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.