The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

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

I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.