The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
I have a dream!To be free at last!Free at last!Free at last.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Find a voice in a whisper.
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all...
I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For t...
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and ob...
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
And in every one of us, there's a war going on. It's a civil war. I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your life. And every time you set out to be go...
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.