I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

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.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.