Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

I have a dream.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The Negro's primary aim is to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists.

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.

I have a dream ... It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream ... I have a dream that one day in the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.