It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all 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.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Unity has never meant uniformity.