In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.