 Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. |
| A riot is the language of the unheard. |
| A lie cannot live. |
| He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. |
| Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. |
| The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. |
| The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. |
| We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. |
| Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. |
| 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. |
| The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. |
| Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. |
| A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. |
| 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. |
| History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. |
| Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. |
| We are not makers of history. We are made by history. |
| Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
| I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. |
| Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. |
