“If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.”

“Nothing pains some people more than having to think”

“Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

“The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.”

“Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

“And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude. Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”

“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.” 

“Only God is able. It is faith in Him that we must rediscover. With this faith we can transform bleak and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of joy and bring new light into the dark caverns of pessimism.”

“unearned suffering is redemptive.”

“We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.”

“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”