If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.