The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Voting is the foundation stone for political action.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.