Without justice, there can be no peace.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.