No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great 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.
من بارها کلمه «صبر کنيد» را شنيدهام
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable
Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism
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...
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in rea...
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we...
So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral end...
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love ca...
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
Let Freedom Ring.
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...