King and Gandhi had found a way to use aggressive impulses to resist injustice without hurting others. Where did the aggression go? The answer, as King would later tell Poussaint, was this: into the courage...

…if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all...

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

No matter the difficulty, no matter the danger. He inspire them like no other since or before.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as ‘right-to-work.’ It provides no ‘rights’ and no ‘works.’ Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the...