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

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

In Christ there is no East nor West.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one.