The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found.
Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.
Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.
Love is the most durable power in the world.
It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life’s difficulties.
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
What are you doing for others?
Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward!
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.