Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

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

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.