A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.