The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.

To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.