It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

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.

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.