We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Violence is not the way.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

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

By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind