There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.