I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.