If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open