Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.