The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.