He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well’
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God’s children. And that we don’t have to live like we are forced to live.
For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.
We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.
I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love.
For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.
Life isn’t worth living until you have found something worth dying for.
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march...
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.
Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.
The words ‘I will forgive you, but I’ll never forget what you’ve done’ never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.
Through our scientific and technological genius we’ve made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.
Great people aren’t those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.