Violence is not the way.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.