A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.