All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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 always right to do the right thing.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
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.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.