An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Whom you would change, you must first love.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.