"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate…"

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it."

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