Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
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.
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree
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.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Keep your promises and never be late in acting. Act right and do the right things at the right time.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
