Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Seeing is not always believing.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.