It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society.
Be true to what you said on paper.