There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.