What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

We cannot walk alone.

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

We must substitute courage for caution.

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