Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

There is no gain without struggle.