"Riots are the language of the unheard."

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate…"

"One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will be asked what did we do with these moments of great moral challenge."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."