 All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. |
| An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. |
| Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. |
| 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. |
| To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. |
| A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. |
| Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. |
| Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. |
| Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. |
| The time is always right to do what is right. |
| I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. |
| Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. |
| The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. |
| Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. |
| I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. |
| There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. |
| If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. |
| A right delayed is a right denied. |
| Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. |
| I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. |
