In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence. By the thousands, faceless, anonymous, relentless young people, black and white, have temporarily left the ivory towers of learning for the barricades of bias. Their courageous and disciplined activities have come as a refreshing oasis in a desert sweltering with the heat of injustice. They have taken our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. One day all of America will be proud of their achievements.


The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)

Martin Luther King Quotes

In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence....

In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence....

In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence....

In the past ten years unarmed gallant men and women of the United States have given living testimony to the moral power and efficacy of nonviolence....