But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.