Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.