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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final re...more

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We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing de...more

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If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. ...more

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God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

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Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

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My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.

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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

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Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenche...more

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There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

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In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

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Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic...more