I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not a...
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of...
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. Wh...
Unity has never meant uniformity.
Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the t...
It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.