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

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

We may win a battle, but if in doing so we have planted thousands of seeds of hatred and fear..the war is not over- only the present conflict has ceased. There will be no peace as long as we react to violence with violence.

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

I am not afraid of the word tension.