Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Be the Change Day

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.