The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees … - Martin Luther King Jr.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover, when the issues at hand seem as perplexing as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict, we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on. And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.