Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

At the center of non-violence stands the principal of love.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

That old law about “an eye for an eye” leaves everybody blind.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair.