Whenever racial discrimination exists it is a tragic expression of man's spiritual degeneracy and moral bankruptcy. Therefore, it must be removed not merely because it is diplomatically expedient, but because it is morally compelling.

Racial injustice is a cancer in the body politic which must be removed before our moral health can be realized.

Now it is time for us to move on to that great and noble realm of justice and brotherhood. That is the great struggle taking place in our nation today. It isn't a struggle just based on a lot of noise; it is a struggle to save the soul of our nation.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

I have a dream that 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 the content of their character.

It is one of the strange ironies of history, that in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal, men are still arguing over whether the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character.