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

"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"We have guided missiles and misguided men."

"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…"