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"I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause."
"I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom."
"A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL"
"I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true."
"We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored."
"I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills."
"There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up."
"... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics."
"I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards."
"I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted."
"People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world."
"Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily."
"While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naïve as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights."
"I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear."
"It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It is a wonderful place to live. But because it is so diverse, our challenges are complex."
"It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America."
"Know that America belongs to you, to all of you."
"When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people."
"It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America."
"A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it."
