I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.