Through violence you may murder the hater, but you cannot murder hate.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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...
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.
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....
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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...
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...
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
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...
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the unive...
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the li...
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated indi...