Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinho...
Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems....
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided agai...
A right delayed is a right denied.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, Love your enemies. It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just...
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 up defeati...
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.