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

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

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

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

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