Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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