The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.