But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.