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

Racial understanding is not something we find, but something that we must create. Through education, we seek to change attitudes.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.