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

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.