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

My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.