[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people