The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.