Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

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

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.