What are you doing for others?

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!