A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.