Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

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.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.