“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
“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.”
“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
“Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”