I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.