Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.