We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.