I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negroes' great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens' "Councilor" or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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.

Segregation is on its deathbed-the question now is, how costly will the segregationists make the funeral?

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

There are more Negroes in jail with me than there are on the voting rolls.

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.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.