If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.