Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for