The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest.

The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

The time is always right to do what is right.