The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.