Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.