Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

We ain't goin' study war no more.

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.