"It is my hope that as the..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people”

“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.”

“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.”

“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.”

“Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.”

“My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.”

“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”

“Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.”

“For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.”