All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.