"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."

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

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

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

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."