If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

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.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."