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.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation.