Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .