There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.