The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Love is the greatest force in the universe. It is the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. He who loves is a participant in the being of God.

The beauty of non-violence is that is makes it possible for the individual to struggle to secure moral ends through moral means.