It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.