Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws… What is the difference between the two?…An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Evil can be cast out, not by man alone nor by a dictatorial God who invades our lives, but when we open the door and invite God through Christ to enter.

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all men

This often misunderstood and misinterpreted concept has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars.

We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: ‘Too late’.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.

Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Find a voice in a whisper.

A lie cannot live.

Seeing is not always believing.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.