Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.