Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

There is nothing more tragic in all the world than to know right and not to do it.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.