Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.