"The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life."
"We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
"I have a dream that my four 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."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
"We live together as rational human beings or die together as fools."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence."
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
"We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."
"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
"Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I am free at last."
"In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society."
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
"Free at last, free at last, Great God Almighty, I am free at last."
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
"One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it."