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.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land