My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

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

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.