We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.