Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.