You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.