Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

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.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.