Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man