I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

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

There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

The Universe is on the side of Justice