Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.