I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.