It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

You only need a heart full of grace

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

America, you must be born again!

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.