I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

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

Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.