Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.