If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.