The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.