Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.