Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

We must follow nonviolence and love.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.