Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.