As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.