Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

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

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.