So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind – it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact – I can only submit to the edict of others.
Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day.
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.
Don’t let anybody take your manhood.
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right.
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.
Is your heart right? If your heart isn’t right, fix it up today.
When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.
You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.