Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
You have as much laughter as you have faith.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
There is no gain without struggle.