In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind