I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.

No one is free until we are all free.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.