Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.