Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

We all can't be famous but we can all be great and we become great when we serve others

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

A woman can have a smile, and a woman can have a large backside, but I have been to the mountain and I am here to tell you that when a woman has both of those things she is not to be trusted.

Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.