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

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.