We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.