In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.