"A riot is the language of the unheard human, salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

 

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

 

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

 

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

 

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

 

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

 

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

 

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power when we have guided missiles and misguided men."

 

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land"