For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.