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.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.