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.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.