Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.