By all measures, he personified America's middle class. He spoke without smiling, yet his face and voice remained calm, never showing anger. Numerous eyewitness accounts of what he actually said were given. You will always serve the Lord if you remember the importance of love. Love leads to an understanding of needs and aspirations far beyond that obtainable by fear, anger and hate.
Love is a great moral principle more powerful than violence.
He then spoke about nonviolence. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends, but I also affirmed that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of god and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed. And nonviolent, redemptive good will be proclaimed the rule of the land. Next Martin talked about peace.