It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

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

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.