I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.