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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ? – “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.”

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man’s ever-recurring song of retaliation.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind.

I’m very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it’s hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society’s final assertion that it will not forgive.

When I took up the cross I recognized it’s meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life – trust, love, mercy, and altruism – then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.

We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God’s children. And that we don’t have to live like we are forced to live.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.

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