“If your intentions are pure, I'm seeking a friend for the end of the world.”

On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Context: In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Song High Tide Or Low Tide

Speech delivered at the officers' club (June 16, 1959).
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)

Source: Schwager, Jack D. Technical Analysis, Wiley; 1 edition (December 1995), ISBN 0471020516 Read it here http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0471020516&id=h0AfBRLrkJYC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=seykota&sig=Z4BZ3qZu3W-QJWYVDGB6xBg8LEk

Source: How to Be Alone

Markings (1964)
Context: You are not the oil, you are not the air — merely the point of combustion, the flash-point where the light is born. You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency — your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means.