It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Be the best of whatever you are.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.