One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evi...
Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will....
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values....
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all th...
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
هیچ چیز خطرناکتر از این نیست که جامعه ای بسازیم که در آن بیشتر مردم حس کنند هیچ سهمی در آن ندارند مردمی که حس میکنند سهمی در جامعه دارند از آن جامعه محافظت می کنند
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.