Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community...Yes , love-which means understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill, even for one’s enemies-is the solution

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.