I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.