You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. …And you refuse to do it because you want to live longer… You’re afraid that you...
Let this affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of freedom. When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and...
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
An eye for an eye makes everyone blind.
It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social change is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the silence of the so-called good people.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word....