There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.