Who said “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the…”?

“In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.”

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Violence is my last option.”

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”