When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.