Always Forgive Your Enemies, But Never Forget

The Road Toward Equality Of Freedom Is Not Easy, And Great Cost And Danger March Alongside Us. We Are Committed To Peaceful And Nonviolent Change, And That Is Important For All To Understand - Though All Change Is Unsettling. Still, Even In The Turbulence Of Protest And Struggle Is Greater Hope For The Future, As Men Learn To Claim And Achieve For Themselves The Rights Formerly Petitioned From Others.

Too Much And Too Long, We Seem To Have Surrendered Community Excellence And Community Values In The Mere Accumulation Of Material Things.

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.

If Freedom Makes Social Progress Possible, So Social Progress Strengthens And Enlarges Freedom. The Two Are Inseparable Partners In The Great Adventure Of Humanity.

The Gross National Product Includes Air Pollution And Advertising For Cigarettes, And Ambulances To Clear Our Highways Of Carnage. It Counts Special Locks For Our Doors, And Jails For The People Who Break Them ... It Does Not Allow For The Health Of Our Families, The Quality Of Thier Education, Or The Joy Of Their Play.