There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

We must condemn those who are perpetuating the violence, and not the individuals who engage in the pursuit of their constitutional rights.

As my sufferings mounted, I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.