You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.