To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting, costly to the society but not wantonly destructive, moreover, it is more difficult for Government to quell it by superior force.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.