One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

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.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.