The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.