I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

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. . . .

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

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.