You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

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

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

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.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world