What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Love is the most durable power in the world.

You only need a heart full of grace

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality.