Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

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

If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent.

In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.