Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.