Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

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

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.