Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.