God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.