We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.