What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason. Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is …

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about thei…

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered. (5-6-1961)

My friends, as we enter a new decade, it should be clear to all of us that there is an unfinished agenda, that we have miles to go before we reach the promised…

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

'This people draws its origin from Abraham, our father in faith The very people that received from God the commandment Thou shalt not kill itself experienced i…