Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

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

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence