“When suddenly (a man) turns upon you and says ‘Punish me. I do not deserve it. But because I do not deserve it, I will accept it so that the world will know hat I am right and you are wrong,’ you hardly know what to do. You feel defeated and secretly ashamed. You know that this man is as good a man as you are; that from some mysterious source he has found the courage and the conviction to meet physical force with soul force.”

– Martin Luther King Jr. in Why We Can’t Wait