Dream big dreams! Others may deprive you of your material wealth and cheat you in a thousand ways, but no man can deprive you of the control and use of your imagination. Men may deal with you unfairly, as men often do; they may deprive you of your liberty; but they cannot take from you the privilege of using your imagination. In your imagination you always win!

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.