Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trail-blazers in human, scientific and religious freedom have always been in a minority.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.