The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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.
Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorro...
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the...
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broade...
All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectl...
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost...
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man,...
There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.