We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

It's not how long you live, it's how well you live.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.