I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That’s all.
Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn’t fit to live!
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.