Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.