Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.