“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.”

“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”

“I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”

“If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.”