Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.