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

America, you must be born again!

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.