We have now gotten the Negro the right to sit at the lunch counter. We must now get him the wherewithal to buy a hamburger.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

I am appalled that some people feel that the civil rights struggle is over because we have a 1964 civil rights bill and a voting rights bill. Over and over again people ask, What else do you want? They feel that everything is all right. Well let them look around at our big cities.

I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste… for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

(Man) has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another’s flesh.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.