I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity

I am what I am because of who we all are.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.