I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.