Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.
The government can’t make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.
Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace.
You can kill the dreamer, but you can’t kill the dream.
My charge as prime minister is to take any decision that is in the best interest of the country.
America, you must be born again!
If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.
I’ll tell you, I’ve seen the lightning flash. I’ve heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.
Mankind’s survival is dependent on man’s ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man’s squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission – a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for “the brotherhood of man”.
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.
I’m concerned about justice. I’m concerned about brotherhood. I’m concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence.