Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.