I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.