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The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.
The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.
God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy
In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.
By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.
Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.
It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
I hate it when people quote me on the internet, claiming I said things that I never actually said.
To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.