There is no gain without struggle.
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.