Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.