My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.