I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you...
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be...
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
We must use time creatively.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is...
The time is always right to do what is right.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the...
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but...
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of...
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is...
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust and who...
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who...
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the...
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we...
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military...
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our...
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard solid thinking. There is...
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles...
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace...
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me but it can keep him...
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our...
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word...
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the...
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the...
Property is intended to serve life and no matter how much we surround it...
The quality not the longevity of one's life is what is important.
Whatever your life's work is do it well. A man should do his job so well...
Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
