When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.