I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.