It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

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