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

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.