Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Be the best of whatever you are.

This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.