Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.