If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are." -Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967. "With patient and firm determination we will press on until every valley of despair is exalted to new peaks of hope, until every mountain of pride and irrationality is made low by the leveling process of humility and compassion until the rough places of injustice are transformed into a smooth plane of equality of opportunity and until the crooked places of prejudice are transformed by the straightening process of bright-eyed wisdom." -Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop. I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." - I've Been to The Mountaintop speech, April 3, 1968. This was his last speech before being shot dead the following day. "If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, 'brethren!' Be careful, teachers!" - The Purpose of Education from Morehouse College student newspaper, The Maroon Tiger, 1947.
"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
But they ask-and rightly so-what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted." - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence speech, New York, New York on April 4, 1967.Ĭivil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California.
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