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

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

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.

I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.