We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

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

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.