Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

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.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.