If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."