If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Omit needless words.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they would die for.
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.