I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.

Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.