Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

What you get with violence can be maintained only with violence

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.