A lie cannot live.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.
The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
The time is always right to do what is right.
A right delayed is a right denied.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love.
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?"