Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.