We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.

Protest is OK. But protests, according to my King family legacy, should be peaceful.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

If we can live a day in peace, then why couldn't we live a week in peace? If we can master a week, why not a month? If we can master a month in peace, why not a year in peace? And if we can master a year, then certainly we can master a lifetime of peace as God's highest creation.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.