The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.