People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

I have a dream today!

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.