I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.

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.

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world