What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.