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The non-violent resistor not only avoids external, physical violence, but he avoids internal violence of spirit. He not only refuses to shoot his oppo...more

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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

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What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brot...more

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There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

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And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising q...more

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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless ...more

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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of...more

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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

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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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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don...more

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humani...more

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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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.