Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for