Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.