The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.