We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me […]

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing, […]

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

Everything we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

From my background, I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique.

I say good night to you by quoting the words of an old Negro slave preacher, who said, “We ain’t what we ought to be and we ain’t what we’re going to be. But thank God, we ain’t what we was.”