We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.