„The non-violent Negro is seeking to create the beloved community. He directs his attack on the forces of evil rather than on individuals.“

— Jr.

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„[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.“
— Jr.
„Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.“
— Confucius
„While abhorring segregation, we shall love the segregationist. This is the only way to create the beloved community.“
— Jr.
„Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.“
— Jr.
„Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.“
— Peter F. Drucker
„Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.“
— Jr.
„No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley