In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.