These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.