Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.