We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.