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.

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.