"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. And so today I still have a dream."
"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
"the time is always right to do the right thing"
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."