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

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

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.