A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve.

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.