"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…"

"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."

"That's absurd. You don't even know me."

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. …"

"The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."