I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

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.