One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

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

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?