Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.