When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.