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.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

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

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