A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.



Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.



The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.



Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing
security of being identified with the majority.



If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.



If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)