[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.