Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

The universe is on the side of justice.

The greatest strength of the civil rights movement was its ability to make white people uncomfortable.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

You know every Napoleon has his Waterloo. I'm like Napoleon. I'm at my Waterloo, and I'm on my knees.

That's absurd. You don't even know me.

Uh yes um what is it my brother? Why we need to protest the radio station?

I am proud to be maladjusted and wish all men of goodwill would be maladjusted until the good society is realized.

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.