The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.