Martin Luther King

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"It's all right to talk about "long white robes over yonder," in all of its symbolism. But ultimately people want some suits and dresses and shoes to wear down here. It's all right to talk about "stree…"

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

"In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn't this like condemning a robbed man becau…"

"Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds."

"o matter where you stand, no matter how much popularity you have, no matter how much education you have, no matter how much money you have, you have it because somebody in this universe helped you to …"

"I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. …"

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."