If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.