In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

If I knew that the world ends tomorrow, I, even today, plant a tree

Be the best of whatever you are.

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.