I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.