[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.