Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.