You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.