American Baptist minister, civil rights leader, author of the 'I Have a Dream' speech.
One day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension, but the presence of justice.
I believe that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, but it does not bend on its own.
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 not do it any better.
Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.