I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir . . . America has defaulted on this promissory note in so far as her citizens of color are concerned.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.