But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.