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.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

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

When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.