A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.