Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.