The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.