I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

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

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.