The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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