Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.

The time is always right to do what is right.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.