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

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong”

“[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....”

“noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good.”

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

“Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

“Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well‐adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities. But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good‐will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self‐defeating effects of physical violence… In other words, I’m about convinced now that there is need for a new organization in our world. The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment‐‐men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos. Who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”

“Riot is the language of the unheard.”

“We cannot walk alone.”

“...we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself.”