You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.