School takes 13 years, because that is how long it takes to break a child's spirit.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

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

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.