I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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.