Martin Luther King Jr.

We must come to see that the roots of war are in the economic system.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

The only way to drive out darkness is with light, and the only way to drive out hate is with love.

We must face the fact that the United States is still a racist country.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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 must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.

The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

A right delayed is a right denied.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.