If America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.  

I am in Birmingham because there is injustice here.

If a law is morally wrong, I urge you to disobey it.