"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. …"

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

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"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."

"The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."