The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.