Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.