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

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.