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

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

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

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.