There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.