Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that’s a problem. Peace and love are eternal.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.