We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.