Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.