The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.