The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.